Abstract
The article is dedicated to the issue of cultural memory in Polish studies. It is discussed in the context of the so-called memory turn, and the transformations occurring in the museum science under the influence of the “new museology”. The text consists of three parts. The first one concerns the changes and shifts in the discourse of cultural and social memory in the days of the increasing musealization process. The second one indicates new educational strategies in narrative, critical, and especially in participatory museums, which contributes to the formation of new models of participation in culture and of receptive habits. The third part, on the other hand, provides diagnoses concerning challenges, as well as the hints which the transformations of the museum activities in the field of education offer to Polish studies.